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Lot 442

HILL, JOHN - ‘EDEN: OR A COMPLEAT BODY OF GARDENING’

printed for T. Osborne et al, London, 1757, gilt tooled brown leather folio bound, retaining coloured plates, the inside front board with 18th century bookplate pasted for ‘C.S. Crouch, Surgeon, Hastings’ and with pen annotations indicating the volume in the Crouch family until at least 1919

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Estimate: £300 - £500
Hammer price: £900
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.

Binding 42.5cm x 27cm

Scuffed and worn

Colours to plates good and fresh

Some foxing and staining intern


There are 60 numbered plates as specified in the index. The colours have kept, pages are generally foxed and stained and page 180 has a repaired tear. There is a 1960s German book dealer's invoice tucked into the back.


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